Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-02-09
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Hon. FRANK ALLYN, of Keokuk, Iowa,
has been appointed by President Cleveland
as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of Washington Territory. Mr.. Allyn has
been actively engaged in the practice of
law at Keoknk since 1869.
I. NJ. HEALEY has been elected TO the
British Parliament for North Longford, to
fill the seat declined by Justin Mccarthy.
THE governor of Iowa has received from
several railroads the statistics required by
law. showing the amount Of their Iowa
business for the past year. Among them
are the following: Chicago and North
western-Mileage, 1,148 passenger re-
cepts, $1.376.6 AZ; freight receipts. S5,-
556, ,33o.57. Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Mileage, 92O; passenger receipts,
S3,ll3,671.l2; freight receipts, 81, 7,190, l5o.-
81. Burlington Cedar Rapids and North
ern-Mileage, S44; passenger receipts,
1926, ,s57 80; freight receipts. 81, 721 ,537. 81.
The Ohio River at Cincinnati, on the
9th, had reached a stand with fifty six feet,
three inches on the gauge, and rain still
falling. This is several feet above the dan
ger point, as established from previous dis
astrous floods. Steamboats, experienced
difficulty in passing under bridges, and
factories employing 1900 men were com
PEELED to shut down.
The Secretary of War, in q communiea-
ton to Congress, reports the unorganized
militia of the United States at 1856, ,592
men. 1t appears that Arkansas, Oregon,
Tenness and Mississippi have no organ
ICED forces.
On the 7th inst. the Philadelphia Cloth
ing Exchange locked out all Knights of La
Dor employed in the cutting and trimming
rooms, LOCO in number. The order will
also affect several thousand other employees
in other branches of the business. Tnis
course was decided upon bv the Exchange
in retaliation of the refusal Of the Knights
of Labor to order back to work the strIk-
ing cutters In several establishments where
assssea - thad been made. ~
FRANZ s. Lee, of Newark, Ohio, killed
hims elf in New York hotel with pen
knife. He had n few days before applied
for life insurance, lut was rejected be.
cause his medical examination revealed
pronounced symptoms of Brght's disease.
1t is thought that Il morbid brooding ovel
the invari able result of such disease drove
him insane.
ACTING by his physicians advice Mr.
Parnell will go abroad to rec,uit his health.
After the conclusion of the debate on the
address, the Parnellltes will oppose all pro-
jects relative to the liquor traffic in Ireland
on the ground that the question should be
reserved for the Irish Parliament.
THE board of commissioners Of Lincoln
Park, Chicago, have awarded the contract
for the erection of monument TO General
Grant, to be placed in that resort to Mr.. l..
L. Rebisso, of Cincinnati, who agrees te
have the monument ready for nnvellina
two years hence. or the three models to
which premiums were AWARDED last October
Mr.. Rebisso's received the first, $500.
IN the Senate on the 7th the credentials OF
Francis b. Stockbridge rs Senator from Michi-
gan presented. Resolutions from the
Legislature Of Kansas favoring the organization
of Oklahoma were presented and referred. The
bill to encourage the manufacture Of steel for
modern army ordnance, arlnor and other army
purposes and to provide heavy ordnance
adapted to modern army warfare, was
without division, Also similar
bill pertaining to naval ordnance wAs
passed. This bill provides that the naval gun
factory shall be at the Washington Navy yard
Twenty bills, all told We're passed, after which
consideration of the Ship Railway Canal bill
was resumed until the hour for executive
sion. The House passed the bill providing for
the holding of terms Of the United States Court
at Duluth, Mimi. A motion to suspend the
rules and pass the bill fixing the sal laries of
Judges of the United States District Courts AT
$5.000 was lost. The bill granting the right Of
wav through Indian Territory to the Chicago
Kansas and Nebraska Railroad Company vas
passed on suspension OF the rules. Adjourned,